Suppose you conduct a series of experiments, each of which consists of tossing a fair coin 6 times. Let X be the number of heads. (i)  What are the probabilities for each value of X?

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Suppose you conduct a series of experiments, each of which consists of tossing a fair coin 6 times. Let X be the number of heads.

  1. (i)  What are the probabilities for each value of X?

  2. (ii)  What is the P(the first toss is tails | X=6)?

  3. (iii)  What is the P(X > 3)?

  4. (iv)  What is the P(X=2 | given the first toss is heads?)

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